(Headline USA) The Biden administration awarded a Soros-backed Puerto Rican organization $2 million in taxpayer dollars to study “toxic masculinities,” according to a new report.
Taller Salud, a self-described feminist non-profit that aims to combat crime in Puerto Rico, earned a grant from the Justice Department in October as part of the DOJ’s Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative, the Washington Free Beacon found. The group said it plans to use the money to study “structural racism and toxic masculinities” and how both contribute to violence, according to the grant.
“Highly trained violence interrupters” will work with at least 40 men between the ages of 15 and 30 every year for three years.
“The three year, $2,000,0000 award will allow [Taller Salud] to continue providing a community violence intervention program that works at the individual level and at the community level seeking crime reduction, improving the criminal justice response to crimes and denormalizing crime in the community of Loíza and the northeastern region of Puerto Rico,” the organization said in a statement.
Taller Salud has received funding from a number of leftist groups, including Planned Parenthood and leftist billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundation.
The group’s CEO, Tania Rosario Mendez, describes herself as an “anti-racist activist for environmental justice and gender equality” on her Instagram page. She pays herself nearly triple the median income in Puerto Rico, which is about $14,000 per year, according to tax documents.
The Biden administration has spent millions funding similar left-wing groups, including one organization that helps illegal immigrants arrested in the U.S. fight deportation. The Acacia Center for Justice, a Washington, D.C.,-based nonprofit, received $41 million from the Justice Department for its “legal services” since 2021.
“The objective of the Acacia Center for Justice (“Acacia”) is to … [provide] legal support and representation to immigrants facing deportation through the development, coordination and management of national networks of legal services providers serving immigrants across the country,” the group’s website states.
